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Palmetto Bay, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Kendall-Palmetto Bay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 33157. The Survey maps it on the Perrine quadrangle. 24,439 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Palmetto Bay within Miami-Dade County

Then and now

1949 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Palmetto Bay, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Palmetto Bay, surveyed 1949

Compare 1949 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Palmetto Bay grew from 23,410 to 24,439 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201023,410
202024,439+1,029 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

173 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Palmetto Bay between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,562 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 41 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Railroad operations and maintenance46
Arson/incendiarism41
Misuse of fire by a minor38
Equipment and vehicle use28
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural4
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2006Natural25 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTHE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI FIRE
8 August 2017Arson/incendiarism10 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLAKE BY THE BAY (13)
17 August 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 August 2004Arson/incendiarism80 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCOASTIE FIRE
30 July 1992Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 July 2011Fireworks2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service168 CORNER (13)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miami-Dade County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Palmetto Bay: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kendall Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Perrine Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pit 12Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Richmond QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Miami-Dade County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Cutler0.9 miles17
Rockdale1.0 miles14
East Perrine1.2 miles17
Kings Bay1.6 miles14
Howard1.8 miles14
Perrine1.9 miles17
Palmetto Estates2.0 miles17
Deering Bay2.1 miles14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Palmetto BayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q937586The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1989948. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.